M.K. Hobson’s stories have recently appeared in the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011 and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Her Nebula-nominated debut novel—The Native Star—is available at fine retailers everywhere. She invites you to visit her website, www.demimonde.com.

David Langford has published over thirty books, eighty short stories and several hundred magazine columns since his 1975 debut. His awards include the Skylark, European SF Award (shared with Peter Nicholls and Brian Stableford) and 28 Hugos—some for his SF newsletter Ansible, launched in 1979 and currently appearing monthly: see news.ansible.co.uk. Langford’s most popular novel […]

Tina Connolly lives with her family in Portland, Oregon. Her stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her first fantasy novel, Ironskin (Tor 2012), was nominated for a Nebula, and the sequel Copperhead is now out from Tor. She narrates for Podcastle and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, runs the Parsec-winning flash […]

Gene Wolfe—who is perhaps best known for his multi-volume epic, The Book of the New Sun—is the author of more than 200 short stories and thirty novels, is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award, a four-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, and was once praised as “the greatest writer in the English Language […]

Born in Lynchburg, VA, raised in Daytona Beach, FL, Lucius Shepard has won the Hugo, Nebula, Word Fantasy, the Shirley Jackson, the Sturgeon, et al for his fiction.  He has lived all over the world but currently resides in Portland, OR. Forthcoming are The Dragon Griaule and a novella collection Five Autobiographies.

Chris Willrich lives with his family in the otherworldly environs of Silicon Valley, where he works as a children’s librarian. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Gate, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Flashing Swords, and The Mythic Circle. You can find him irregularly on his blog at Goblins in the Library and […]

Marc Laidlaw is best known as one of the creators and lead writer on the Half-Life videogame series, but he initially got that gig on the strength of his short stories and novels of fantasy, horror and science fiction. His novel The 37th Mandala won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel. A writer […]